InfoChachkie

MARCH 10, 2014

Mr. Brown''s advice will help you to, "live a good, honorable life which you can enjoy a second time when you are old.". Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do - entrepreneurs never calculate probabilities, even if the chances are one in a million, "one" is all you need to win.

Competition 274

Competition Mentor Entrepreneur Startup 274

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. You really should go read Brad Feld's Implied Suspicion Versus Implied Trust. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood. I wasn’t verklempt — I wept.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C. Here’s why.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Brad Feld hadn’t written his seminal “ term sheet series &# and The Funded hadn’t yet been created. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist. This is a shame.

Venture Capital 405

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

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JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Much of this is unfounded – some is not. the link is here.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

The same should be true of an entrepreneur who is attempting to secure money from sophisticated investors. Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. Prep Steps.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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JANUARY 13, 2011

In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. I’m sure there are many more.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway.

Resource 131

Resource Startup Capital Mentor 131

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I think startup communities being simple cheerleaders doesn’t help anyone. I then got my MBA at University of Chicago so I secretly pull for local entrepreneurs as long as they don’t make me visit in the Winter any more. People often say, “Great entrepreneurs will build a community and the capital will follow.”

Company 369

Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

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MARCH 27, 2011

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

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JANUARY 20, 2013

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. ” I have long thought about and written about the personal toll that being an entrepreneur places on your life. Brad was married and divorced in his early 20′s. It’s called Startup Life and you can order it here. . ” Gulp.

Entrepreneur 370

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Social Network 370

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And as I’ve written about before – building a personal brand is extremely important in today’s competitive job market. In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. Here’s how he did it.

SaaS 150

SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150